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Opened in December 2023, Ballard Books in Seattle offers modern titles but specializes in antique books, with some stretching back centuries.

Polar bears and their environment, as well as the plight they face, is at the heart of this Whaling Museum exhibit

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! On most days of the year in the early 1900s, Battle Harbour, on Labrador’s rugged coast, is pretty quiet. The busiest this cod-fishing station gets is when a big catch of fish comes in, and the air buzzes with excitement and activity as the haul is brought ashore. But in September 1909, a buzz of a different kind fills the salty air. The tiny village, population 300, finds itself at the center of a media frenzy it hasn't seen before—or since. Against a backdrop of fishing boats bobbing expectantly in the harbor, dozens of reporters—wearing...

Subscribe here, or by clicking subscribe above! It’s August, 1818, and two British naval ships are dodging icebergs in Baffin Bay on their mission to find the Northwest Passage. John Ross, commanding the HMS Isabella, and William Parry in the HMS Alexander are farther north along the western Greenland coast than any previous explorers. They assume this land of glaciers and stark mountains is uninhabited.  But they’re wrong.  They spy several figures running on a hill near shore. Ross assumes they’re shipwrecked sailors in need of rescue, and he steers the Isabella to get closer. Bu...